Medical technologies and the life world the social construction of normality
Although the use of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine is generally seen as beneficial, there has been little analysis of the impact of such technologies on people's lives and understandings of health and illness. This book explores how new technologies not only provide hope for...
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Abingdon, Oxon, UK ; New York :
Routledge
2007
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| Colección: | Critical studies in health and society
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| Acceso en línea: | Sumario |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991007667969708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Medical technologies, the lifeworld, and normality : an introduction / Sonja Olin Lauritzen & Lars-Christer Hydén
- Learning to talk and talking about talk : professional identity and communicative technology / Lars-Christer Hydén & Antje Lumma
- What's in a Pap smear? Biology, culture, technology, and self in the cytology laboratory / Anette Forss
- Gyneacologists and geneticists as storytellers : disease, choice, and normality as the fabric of narratives on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis / Kristin Zeiler
- The normal baby-to-be : lay and professional negotiations of the ultrasound image / Ann-Cristine Jonsson
- A normal pregnancy? Women's experiences of being at high risk after ultrasound screening for Down syndrome / Sonja Olin Lauritzen, Susanne Georgsson Öhman & Sissel Saltvedt
- Imaging technology and the detection of "cold aneurysms" : illness narratives on the Internet / Gunilla Tegern
- Phenomenology listens to Prozac : analyzing the SSRI revolution / Fredrik Svenaeus.
